Daniel Jew

My adult life has been split roughly equally between the UK and Singapore. As a history undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge I enquired about doing more courses on Greece and Rome and was told I had to switch to Classics! So I ended up with a first degree in Classics.

I went on to receive a masters degree and doctorate at Cambridge (supervised by Paul Millett and Paul Cartledge), and held a post-doctoral position (as Moses & Mary Finley Research Fellow) at Darwin College, Cambridge. In between, I held positions as a Senior Tutor in American Studies and at the University Scholars Programme here at NUS.

I am currently Senior Lecturer in History and Director of Studies at the College of Alice & Peter Tan within NUS. My office is in University Town. Students are very welcome to see me (please email to arrange a meeting). My pedagogy focuses on learner-centredness and significant learning (Weimer 2013, Fink 2013). I am happy to informally or formally peer review curricular material or classroom teaching based on these pedagogies.

My research focuses on modelling socioeconomic and ecological aspects of ancient Greece: climate, the agricultural and non-agricultural economies, land and labour, and inequality and wealth distribution in classical Athens.

CURRENT RESEARCH:

• Agriculture and carrying capacity in classical Athens and Sparta
• Monte Carlo (probabilistic) and other quantitative methods for ancient history
• The ancient Greek economy
• Ancient Greek climate
• Postcolonialism and Subaltern Studies
• Ancient slavery

MODULES TAUGHT:

• The Ancient World: Ancient Greece (HY2263)
• The Ancient World: The Roman Empire (HY2262)
• Games, Game Communities & Society (UTC1416)
• History/EU Honours Theis (HY/EU4401)

TEACHING AWARDS:

• NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Awards (ATEA), 2020-22
• NUS Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Award, 2017, 2019-20
• NUS Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Honour Roll, 2021
• NUS Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Committee, 21/22, 22/23
• NUS Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Committee, 22/23

PUBLICATIONS:

• The Probable Past: Agriculture and Carrying Capacity in Ancient Greece (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming monograph)
• The Uncertain Past: Probability and Ancient History (Cambridge University Press, 2023, In Press, co-edited with Myles Lavan and Bart Danon)
• 'Probabilistic Modelling in Ancient History' in Lavan, Jew & Danon eds. 2023 (co-authored with Myles Lavan)
• 'The Agricultural Economy’ in The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy, ed. Sitta von Reden (Cambridge University Press, 2022, In Press)
• ‘The Non-Agricultural Economy: Artisans, Traders, Women and Slaves’ in von Reden ed. 2022
• M.I. Finley: An Ancient Historian and his Impact (Cambridge University Press, 2016, co-edited with Robin Osborne and Michael Scott)
• ‘Introduction: Finley’s Impact – A Balance Sheet’ in Jew, Osborne & Scott eds. 2016 (co-authored with the other editors)
• ‘Agriculture, Greek’ in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, R. Bagnall et al. eds. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

SELECTED CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS:

• Athens: Economy and Democracy (2-day conference, Cambridge, July 2022, co-organiser with Robin Osborne and Sitta von Reden; Festschrift P. Millett)
• 'Agriculture, Silver, Trade and Liturgies: A Model of the Athenian Economy', paper presented at the conference above
• 'Wealth Distribution and Sociopolitical Power in Classical Athens', paper presented at The Distribution of Economic and Political Power in Ancient Societies Conference (St. Andrews, June 2022)
• Probabilistic Approaches to Uncertainty in Pre-Modern History (2-day training workshop, St Andrews, July 2017, co-organiser and keynote presenter with Myles Lavan)
• ‘The Heel of Achilles: Interdependence and Historical Monte Carlo’, paper presented at the Uncertain Past Conference (St. Andrews, July 2018, co-authored with Alberto Corrias)
• ‘Learner-Centred Teaching: Reflections on Teaching History to Millennials’ (History Department workshop, Oct 2019, with Donna Brunero)
• Lead Faciliator of NUS CDTL-grant funded Learning Community on Learner Centred Teaching (2020-21)